William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, left, and NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman speak with Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko after they finished pressure checks of their Russian Sokol suits in preparation for launch to the International Space Station, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch on Oct. 19 aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft. Vic

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William Gerstenmaier, NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations, left, and NASA Deputy Administrator Dava Newman speak with Expedition 49 flight engineer Shane Kimbrough of NASA, Soyuz commander Sergey Ryzhikov of Roscosmos, and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko after they finished pressure checks of their Russian Sokol suits in preparation for launch to the International Space Station, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch on Oct. 19 aboard the Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft. Victor Zelentsov)

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